Future Predictions

This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry -- was the buzz of TED. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some.

As globalization and technological advances bring us hurtling towards a new integrated future, Ian Goldin warns that not all people may benefit equally. But, he says, if we can recognize this danger, we might yet realize the possibility of improved l

Every generation of Americans should live better than its predecessor. That's Americans' core definition of economic "progress." But for today's young, it may be a mirage. Higher health spending, increasing energy prices and stretched governments at

Over at HuffPo, Russell Simmons has let go of the wheel and bounced off a guard rail. His apocalyptic melodrama sounds like the typical Hollywood cliche of a Christian right-winger. But these lefties are all about projection, so that’s to be expected

A trends forecaster says the current economic "rebound" from last winter's Wall Street collapse of banks, insurance companies and automobile manufacturers is an artificial blip created by 'phantom money printed out of thin air backed by nothing."And

As in the past, al-Qaida attempted to conflate Obama with his predecessor, George W. Bush, who was widely disliked by Muslims for his invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq. Al-Qaida on Tuesday released a new 106-minute long video predicting President Ba

Some futurists such as Ray Kurzweil have hypothesized that we will
someday soon pass through a singularity--that is, a time period of
rapid technological change beyond which we cannot envision the future
of society. Most visions of this singularity focus on the creation of
machines intelligent enough to devise machines even more intelligent
than themselves, and so forth recursively, thus launching a positive
feedback loop of intelligence amplification. It's an intriguing
thought. (One of the first things I wanted to do when I got to MIT as
an undergraduate was to build a robot scientist that could make
discoveries faster and better than anyone else.) Even the CTO of Intel,
Justin Rattner, has publicly speculated recently that we're well on our
way to this singularity, and conferences like the Singularity Summit
(at which I'll be speaking in October) are exploring how such transformations might take place.

Visit my column at National Writers Syndicate online publication. Click on this express Hail Mary. Beware … the Antichrist is here. We are all now cliffhangers to a threatening implosion --
America is about to disintegrate!

The USS America is in serious trouble, very serious trouble as she is taking on large amounts of water and is beginning to dangerously list to the left. Precious few of the passengers have attempted to reach the lifeboats because they mistakenly believe the propaganda spewing from the chorus of six voices emanating from the Captain’s Bridge which are repeatedly urging everyone to remain calm.

Our children
are not going to pay off the suckers – us – who naïvely
thought they could pass on the Old Maid of government debt to them.

Here is economic
reality. Taxpayers and Treasury debt buyers are paying for all of
the benefits that voters enjoy as recipients of government-funded
programs. Voters are not transferring these costs to future generations.
Costs are inescapably the same as benefits. If we receive present
benefits, someone pays for these benefits in the present. The only
questions are these: Who Wins? Who loses? How soon?

Economists
despair about their inability to get across this simple idea: we
consume only present goods.

Economics
students nod their heads in agreement with the professor. "Yes,
yes; we know that." But they don't know it. As soon a

The GAO (Government Accountability Office) periodically issues reports
titled something like "The Nation's Long-Term Fiscal Outlook" that
attempts to predict the future economic outlook of the USA based on
computer simulations. The reports cited here show that the result of the Obama administration's efforts to "fix the economy" will most likely make things much worse. Not just in the short term but for a long time!

It has been observed in the past solar eclipses that some strong earthquakes followed that eclipse, and in particular in the regions of the earth where that universe incident occurred, i.e. the umbral path or the region where the shadow of the moon

Ernie,
When you get a chance, download the mp3 at http://www.netcastdaily.com/broadcast/fsn2009-0110-3a.mp3 and fast forward to about 36:30. The hosts of the show, Jim Puplava and John Leofler, spent the first part of this hour goi

Warnings and predictions of future national destruction have been coming from many sources in recent years. There are even those who now make a profession of such warnings. As the years pass by, however, and no such events occur, most Americans have

We have received very credible information that not only one, but two WMD events will possibly occur this weekend in the West. If these events occur they will have a profound impact on a global scale. Not only will this be the breaking point of the w

Scott Walkington experienced a life after death experience. We have talked with him on several occasions and he spoke at our church. When he speaks, he is very articulate and he gives details that would be difficult to relate if this experience had n

It has been reported that approximately 500 small earthquakes measuring up to 3.9 magnitude have occurred at Yellowstone since December 27 of last year. It is being said that although tremors are common in this area, it is not common to have so m

It has been reported that approximately 500 small earthquakes measuring up to 3.9 magnitude have occurred at Yellowstone since December 27 of last year. It is being said that although tremors are common in this area, it is not common to have so m

If the problem of national security does not preempt economic recovery, then we will have a buoyant market bouncing back with vengeance in the wake of a financial turbulence that brought havoc to the local and international landscapes.

Is the United States going to put dictatorship into effect under the guise of the anti-terrorist struggle? What may trigger another major transformation in 2009? The answer is obvious: another 9/11 in the USA.